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Active volunteer at my twin's High School. Cleveland HS Band Board Member: Volunteer Coordinator and webmaster/GSuite admin. PTA website remodel. Once COVID started, I managed my twin daughters' transition to online education and early graduation. Took online courses at Stanford, Imperial College, and MIT in ML, Linear Algebra for ML, and Biology. Helped my daughters take similar online courses and apply to colleges. Developed a Gatsby website, and Node Plugins, from scratch to learn React, NodeJS, and GraphQL. Wrote a Python web scraper to collect information from US News on colleges offering biotech degrees to help daughters, and learn Python.

I took a one-semester emergency substitute contract to teach Engineering, CAD, and Robotics at Tigard High School. I taught Autodesk 360 Fusion, Intro To Engineering, and Robotics. I ran a lab of 18 MakerBot and Afinia 3D printers, a laser cutter, C&C lathes, 35 computers, Arduino, and robotics kits. I taught a C quick start for the Arduino. I introduced the students to Agile concepts. I sponsored the Computer Game Dev Club and a First Tech Challenge robotics team 750. I helped the robotics team explore TensorFlow Lite. I also substituted for the software and IT teacher just before COVID closed the schools.

My mother, in Atlanta, developed health problems and my father needed to downsize from a small farm to move to a retirement community closer to town. I stayed there for a few months to help. After that was settled, I moved back and decided to spend more time with my family, work on my old house, and try out the construction business. I was the office manager for Space Down Under, a company that jacks up old homes and replaces foundations. I kept up with software and cloud technology and did some learning projects.

Skills: Java, GoLang, Python, AWS SDKBrought in to help the Cloudability pipeline group as an engineer. Added features and fixed bugs in the Java libraries. Transferred to support fledgling Professional Services group. Maintained and refactored inherited GoLang project that was written for one very large client. I had to learn Go on the fly. The code base was written by a non-engineer who then left. Code used AWS SDK to pull down massive AWS and Azure billing files and third party data for security analysis and Chef activity. Pulled from S3 buckets to Jenkins, parsed them, cross referenced them and created aggregated summaries that were then pushed to another S3 bucket for consumption by the client company. The process existed outside of the normal Cloudability apps. The code had to be changed monthly to reflect changing requirements for the aggregated summaries as well as changes in AWS and Azure file formats.Wrote Java version of the process because the rest of Cloudability used Java and did not want to support GoLang apps. Wrote working Python examples to help a client use the Cloudability API REST services. Learned Python on the fly because thats what the client needed.

Senior Applications Engineer, Architect, DevOps EngineerSkills: Java, SQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Jersey 2, JQuery, JSON, GradleMentored junior developer. Began Implementing DevOps infrastructureAppDynamics APM: Drove evaluation and purchase, implementedTransferred legacy projects from no build tools to GradleWrote custom Incremental Synch class for developing in exploded WAR format. If using the default code, the process was unbearably slow because our legacy web apps were in one giant monolithic WAR file.Began habitualizing unit testing (JUnit/TestNG), automated UAT (Selenium), automated Code Quality and Testing CoverageEvangelized “Infrastructure As Code” to Ops. They were testing Puppet when I left Evaluated CI/CD pipeline options. Preparing to use Jenkins, Artifactory, GitLab, SonarPrepared to migrate locally hosted JSP WWW site to SiteCore hosted on AWS (IAAS). Refactored apps from JSPs to fat client/REST backends to allow front end code to eventually be authored in SiteCore without changing core changing server side code. Refactored large monolithic Java code base to create more granular, decoupled libraries. Replacing legacy custom code and in house libraries with best of breed open source libs. Reduced shared code as much as possible in keeping with new microservices vision and general “Clean Code” concepts.Refactored monolithic servlet style JSPs to have minimal Java on page or ideally converting to fat web client AJAX apps. Moved Java and SQL from on-page to MVC classes as we refactored applications. Worked with team to implement Hibernate ORM (no ORM was used before) to support moving to embedded web container.Moved from Zen load balancer to NGINX, raised Qualys SSL grade from F to A+.Evangelized Agile practices like daily standups, short time bounded sprints to production ready code, MVP vs Over Engineering (which in turn requires DevOps infrastructure)Refactored Ticket system to align with upcoming Service Now integration with Dover.

DevOps Infrastructure Developer for Nike Point Of Sales. Cognos 10.2 SDK, Java, JCIFS SMB, JGIT, SAX, XPath, Gradle, Git, Agile with twice weekly scrums and 2 to 3 weeks sprints. Version One agile project mgt software. Created automated Git version control and automated testing for Cognos report developers to support continuous delivery. Developed CLI apps that can be plugged into CD pipelines and eventually used across the company. Apps can be run from JSON config files or CLI. Developed JavaFX desktop app to allow report developers to initiate local testing and posting to the Chef pipeline.

Skills: Java 7, SQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON, REST, CSS, Tomcat, Git, Jersey 2, JQuery, SLF4J/Logback, Waffle SSO, SQL Server.- I am re-factoring the company's entire J2EE code base. Previous developers left 28 man years of JSP code with no documentation. They were unaware of OO design and basic 3-tier/MVC JSP architecture. There were no staging servers, no source or revision control, and only production DBs. The code was laced with hard coded dependencies on host names, IP addresses and OS specific functionality that it could only exist on one particular dev box that hosted the dev versions of the www, extranet and intranet, on one instance of Tomcat. These dev copies were also performing some production tasks.- Refactoring the www, extranet and intranet web apps so that they can be deployed on n dev, staging and prod servers with no code changes, only server level configuration. Created staging servers.- Implemented Git- Upgraded from Java 1.4 - 6 to Java 7 (try with resource, NIO, Servlet 3.1).- Drove creation of test instances of all databases. Migrated SQL from JDE ERP 7.3 to 9.1 and MySQL to SQL Server. Implemented JDBC Conn Pooling. Performed forensics to find unclosed DB conns.- Replacing custom or no longer supported code dependencies with best of breed open source and plain Java 7, custom logging with SLF4J/Logback.- Implemented SSO, Developed AD search REST API.- Abstracted hard coded variables to become Tomcat server env variables that could be configured per server, allowing the code to remain oblivious of whether it was running on dev, staging or prod to support meaningful testing. - As time allowed, rewrote monolithic JSPs to have minimal Java or only AJAX, moved Java, SQL from pages to classes.- Created a HTTP REST file service to replace reliance on mounted drives and to facilitate use by 3rd party apps. - Preparing to implement automated testing, CD, DI, Gradle, Selinium, JUnit, Mockito.

Supported Student Services and Finance. Developed reports and work flows using Evisions Argos. Created and edited SQL reports against complicated, non-normalized databases. Optimized legacy SQL, translated legacy SQL from non-ANSI to ANSI Joins to improve performance and readability. Developed PL/SQL support functions and packages. Integrated Banner ERP with StarRez housing using automated Java process. Developed and maintain staff intranet page. Advocated for introduction of internet technologies, reusable code libraries and DB normalization. Technologies: SQL, PL/SQL, Java 6, JDBC, JavaMail, Java Logging, JUnit, HTML, Javascript.

Taught Software Engineering, Computer Aided Design, Web Development and Microsoft Office Suite. Taught Java, HTML, Flash, MS Office, Rhino 3D, Javascript and Game Maker. Developed modular lesson plans for self paced learning. Managed five classes per semester of up to 30 students each, including ESL and Special Needs. Met with Special Ed Teachers and provided feedback in IEP meetings. Created and managed computer gaming club. Managed two computer labs using Ghost imaging software. Oregon Teaching License, Secondary Certification, Integrated Science and Social Studies, Professional Technical Teaching Certification in Computer Technology.

Earned Masters of Education with certifications in Secondary Education, Science, History, Computer Science (Professional Technical Educator Certification) and Communications. Developed web sites for the Portland Permaculture Guild and for City Repair.

Consulted with team to design and code a 3 tier J2EE app for Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance portal. Developed JSPs, Javascript, HTML, Java business objects and SQL persistence layer. The site let users join and manage their plan. The site supported Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Each state had different laws affecting the plans so the wizards and forms had to behave differently based on the state the user was in. Technologies: J2EE, SQL, JUnit, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Ant, winCVS, WebSphere, Oracle and JBuilder.

Developed a JSP/Servlet/Applet framework for online game development. Created a trial Applet game client using Swing. Experimented with Java Plugin to specify which JVM was used, which proved problematic. Also, there was no hardware acceleration for Applets. Developed a JavaScript and DHTML version of the game client that would leverage the same server code. Developed a "single page app" by using 2 hidden pages to send and receive Javascript messages from a Java Servlet, foreshadowing AJAX. Again, the browsers lacked hardware acceleration and I determined that what I wanted to do was undoable at that time. Technologies: J2EE, Sockets, MySQL, SQL, JavaScript, DHTML, CSS.

Developed J2EE applications. Converted an existing Cold Fusion application to JSPs. The app was a portal that helped users manage and report on the data that Web Criteria's core application gathered. Also worked on the core J2EE application to develop and extend business tier classes to support integration with the new portal. Technologies: J2EE, Java, JSP, CSS, HTML, Javascript, CVS, DB2, Cold Fusion.

Created 3 tier web applications using classic Microsoft Active Server Pages. Webridge had developed a proprietary wrapper technology that preceded and greatly influenced ASP.NET. It allowed multiple languages and elegantly supported DCOM across multiple IIS servers and SQL Servers (similar to J2EE Beans). Technologies: JavaScript (JScript), SQL, VB, VB Script, CSS, DHTML, SQL. Work typically included Create, Update, Delete and Search (CRUDS) pages, web based wizards and work flow management, and custom OO middle tier support classes. Co-created and developed from Rational Rose specifications.

Was hired to lead a new "Special Services Team" to rapidly implement web technologies within BellSouth. Developed 3 tier intranet/extranet web applications for various internal divisions of Bell South using Active Server Pages (ASP, VBScript, SQL, JavaScript, HTML). Gathered requirements and developed project plans, developed the code and handled internal billing and training end users. Was sometimes on single person projects, sometimes lead other members of Special Projects and sometimes was lead by others in flexible arrangements. Interfaced with the BellSouth web public facing site development team, which used Kiva, an early J2EE platform. Began to follow and promote New Atlanta's Servlet Exec, the first JSP implementation.

Professional Services/Engineering. Developed retail kiosk software for Fred Myers and Walmart. The application ran in a web browser behind a touchscreen kiosk. I used ASPs, a hidden Java Applet (to access card scanners and thermal printers), Javascript, HTML, DHTML, SQL. I developed a server side app to allow Professional Services implementation teams to create store maps. I helped create an OO middle tier wrapper layer for the store catalog DB. I also made RPC's to NCR's data warehousing infrastructure to support "up selling", as in "you might also be interested in these products". I won a small prize for submitting an idea for a shopping service that resembled what is now Google Shopping, but it was never acted on.

Using use-case analysis, designed and developed the UI for the “Protean” ERP Financial package, a competitor with similar packages from SAP and Oracle. (VB, Vis. Studio). Project had slipped and I was brought in to do a quick prototype.

- Kaplan Communications, Inc: Full life cycle development and end user training for real estate web sites. (ASP, Javascript, HTML) Began using ASPs as soon as they were released. I was brought in initially because a developer had left in the middle of a PERL/flat file Real Estate website project. I switched it over to ASP/SQL and wrapped it up quickly. I went on to do two more data driven real estate sites. I did 3 out of 4 of the largest real estate agencies in Atlanta.- Crestone Books (now Agilent Technologies): Client side JavaScript shopping cart.